ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book widens the possibilities for film criticism and appreciation into areas untouched by other film texts. It aims to support that commentary: ways of looking at the experience that will have a distinctive Jungian tone, just as the comments in a psychotherapy with a Jungian would have – as opposed to those from a different theoretical perspective. The book also takes on board the developing area of critique that views Jungian thinking as part of a postmodern understanding of contemporary Western life. It has a specific purpose it is to bring together a series of structural possibilities, based in Jungian and post-Jungian thinking, through which the people might – in an increasingly world-wide and cross-cultural context – make fuller sense of the imagery and imagination discovered in the social dreaming that cinema has for a century reflected.
